We’ve all cringed at David Brent as he waxes lyrical about how wonderful he is. Well, it seems not all of us thought it was that bad.

A video of Tom Cruise speaking in a deadly serious, Brent-style way about his responsibility as a Scientologist has surfaced online.

The Mission Impossible star talks about his dedication to the cult in a 9-minute clip which has found its way onto YouTube but has since been pulled.

In it he talks about how Scientology is the driving force in his life and how he wants to use the faith to help other people.

Brent takes himself a little too seriously

“I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it’s something that you have to earn because a Scientologist does… has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions.”

“Being a Scientologist, you look at someone and know absolutely that you can help them. But that’s what drives me.

“I know that we have an opportunity to really help…effectively change people’s lives and I am dedicated to that. I am absolutely, uncompromisingly dedicated to that.”

The speech was filmed after Cruise accepted the Freedom Medal of Valor award at an International Association of Scientologists event.

The 45-year-old recently threatened to launch a $50 million lawsuit against writer Andrew Morton over an unauthorised biography.

The book claims Cruise is Scientology’s second-in-command and compares his daughter Suri to the “Devil’s child”.